Peipers Route at the battle for the bulge

On Tuesday 19 December at around midday, seven Panthers began their descent from Stoumont and after passing through Targnon, withdrew quickly when they came under artillery fire. At the bend several hundred metres past the station, twelve tanks of the US 743rd Tank Battalion, four tank destroyers, a 90mm anti-aircraft gun of Battery C, 143rd AAA Gun Battalion and troops of the 3rd Battalion, 119th Infanhy lay in wait for the approaching German column.